Twenty-two people including four US soldiers have died in a series of attacks in Iraq since Sunday evening, while a journalist, her son, and three men working for the US military have been kidnapped, according separate security sources and a statement from a militant group.An Iraqi truck driver was killed overnight in an attack northeast of Baghdad on his convoy carrying equipment for the Iraqi army, police said. Two other drivers were missing. A teacher at Baiji’s Oil Institute died on Monday in a bomb attack, while an Iraqi soldier was killed in a mortar attack outside Samarra and an Iraqi civilian died in an attack on a chemist’s, southeast of Samarra, security sources said.
In Mosul, police Lt Col Essam Fathi was shot dead as he left home, police said, and in the same city gunmen kidnapped Raeda Wazzan, a journalist working for a government-funded television station, along with her son, aged 10, a TV executive said. An Interior Ministry source said that four people had died in separate attacks in the capital.